Group Project Reflection- Christina McCain

 During our group projects, I have learned a lot about public speaking. At first, I thought it would be about basic things like do not stutter and do not seem nervous, but this project made me think deeper about the small choices and what affects us in public speaking. In this reflection, I will share my experience on what I have learned, how it changed my perspective, and how each group was.

   First group to present was group one. I was apart of this group, and I feel as we did an excellent job. When it came to putting the whole presentation together and communicating, I initially thought no one would be on top of it because our group chat was not sending any messages after the first day but then it just took some getting used to and after we divided our sections we instantly started to get to work. As for the actual presentation, it looked very well made. There were great visuals, cameras were on while presenting and it was not a massive amount of stuttering over words. I also learned a lot from it too. For example, I did not know about facilitating a supportive communication climate and Daniel said a great explanation for it. He explained the respect, tone, and self control needed in a listener/speaker and explained the examples of supportive and defensive responses. I feel like everyone knows certain things to public speaking but not the tricks and information to better understand it. Especially me because I tend to do a lot of the things I was explaining on my part of building ur confidence fundamentals like rethinking my sentences and thinking the way I talk does not sound right before the I present a speech. Those were some of the things mentioned as the root of speech anxiety and it helped me realize how me as a person also do these things and I could use information from the presentation to better my own speech.

  Group 2 was the second group to present they were discussing developing and researching your topic. At the introduction, our class leader mentioned how in their chat they were sending each other videos of them presenting and giving each other feedback. I love that they did that because that helps the group itself present much better. I learned the steps of developing a purpose and topic of a speech on a deeper level. I did not know every topic idea would not work, and you would need to consider the time, resources, and my interest. I only thought about what the audience would think. Which is why I was interested when they mentioned purpose because I did know there should be a general purpose for a speech like persuasion or just informative. I also loved the part about how to organize your speech because I need a-little help on that concept too. As for looks, I do feel like the visuals were little boring in the beginning, but it is not something that would make me say they did any less good. Overall, they did a great job.

  The next class group 3 went, and the class leader said they were being extremely helpful towards one another and giving each other feedback. I applaud them for that because in a lot of cases groups are not always cooperative. During their presentation I feel like most of that information I knew, which isn’t a bad thing at all. Everything they were saying was very useful and really just refreshed my memory. One thing I did not like was the long video they entered, only because it was not straightforward and short.  As a speaker or presenter, you want the audience to engage and the video was boring. But it did include key points about how your presentation should go and that is great. I loved the visuals included throughout the rest of the slides and how most of them had their cameras on. But I do wish the rest of them did just so we have a look at who we are listening to.

  Last group was group 4, and they just discussed the several types of speaking. For me personally I have been over this before in high school so again most of the information being told was just a-little of a refresh for me. I did learn more about distance speaking and media appearances in their presentation. Distance speaking like a zoom call taught me more about the importance of clear communication, since the audience is not physically there. And the media part just showed me how public speaking has much more larger audiences and the same concepts we learned should be applied there just like it would in person. For their actual presentation, they also had great visuals. I feel like everyone spoke very well and they understood what they were presenting about. They all had their cameras on and overall they presented very well.

  In conclusion, these group projects taught me a lot about public speaking and gave me a better perspective than I had before. I realized that public speaking is not just about avoiding mistakes like stuttering, but about making thoughtful choices that improve communication and connection with the audience. Each group showed me something new, my own group helped me see how supportive communication makes a big difference, Group 2 taught me the importance of carefully developing and organizing a topic, Group 3 reminded me of the value of cooperating and how presentation choices affect audience engagement, and Group 4 gave me more understanding of distance speaking and media appearances. Even when the information felt like a refresher, I still learned new details and strategies that I can apply in the future. I now see public speaking as a skill that can always be improved, and I feel more confident knowing I have practical information to use moving forward.


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